Sven transfer leaks are exciting

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Pet peeve of mine. Ex-players talking about how they got shit-faced before a game then scored a hattrick. Nice one. You were reckless. Your career never blew up because of it. Not sure you should be celebrating that.

Secondly. Seems like the comments section of Le Grove has turned austere in times of plenty. No one seems to fancy Dembele, preferring to invest in a creaking squad. I have to say, as much as I love the French international, spanking out £100m on one player at the minute feels a touch luxurious. We really do have very serious issues that are going to be exposed like a loose plaster trying to cover an axe wound.

Still, it is nice to see the club addressing the issues, well, if the rumours are to be true.

Pepe of Lille seems like a very hot target, and at £40m, could be a shrewd purchase. Sarr of Rennes has also been linked, could be electric if he carries on honing his craft. No doubt other clubs will be into him, like Chelsea, but we are a draw now, no doubt. We’re looking at Ramires (pictured above) from Brazil who is a center midfielder who can get about the pitch. he’s only made 11 appearances, but he’s bossed them, scored some good goals and it looks like Sven is prepared to take a risk and strike early. I LOVE that we’re trying to be a more elite Dortmund. There are also tender links to Emerson, a young Brazilian right back.

Great thing these days is this… if it looks like a hole, affects your team like a hole, it’s probably a hole in the squad the club will address within one window.

In other sexy news… Aaron Ramsey… the best Welshman in the world.. has apparently made a decision. BAYERN MUNICH. That’d be a great move for him. Germany is a wonderful country, Bayern is a huge team, they’d find a way of making him work in their setup. Well, I hope so anyway. One thing you can be sure of, he won’t be making £300k a week there… but he’ll probably win the league and be mighty well off regardless.

In Chelsea news, this BOMBSHELL dropped.

According to documents obtained by Football Leaks, and published on Thursday by the Danish newspaper Politiken, Chelsea employed Sten Christensen as an overseas scout on the same day they signed his son, Andreas, from Brondby in 2012.

Alleged copies of Chelsea’s consultancy agreements, published by Politiken, state that Sten started working for the London club on July 1 2012, the same day as his son, and was paid £11,400 per month plus VAT for four years – a total of £656,640 – while he was still working for Brondby as a goalkeeping coach.

Oh my, Chelsea, what have you done? It gets worse…

‘The Football Leaks documents also claim Manchester City, another of the five Premier League clubs under investigation by Fifa’

Now, I think we can safely assume Arsenal are not one of the clubs. I heard from a good source that we missed out on M’Bappe because we wouldn’t pay his family a chunk of cash to move to us. The big question here is this: What are FIFA going to do?

There’s talk of 2-year transfer bans. Can you imagine? It’d be unreal to watch Pep and the Manchester monstrosity function without adding six £70m players every transfer window. I mean, they’d be fine, but still, someone needs to get a grip of football.

The game is slipping away from the fans. No one has stepped in to stop blood money washing into the Premier League. No one has stopped Manchester City flagrantly break the rules. No one stopped Qatar even when it became clear they bribed their way to the World Cup.

Who and what is going to get in the way when a group of 16 or so clubs decide European football can operate like the NFL? No relegation. No way to creep into the league. I’d be appalled. As nice as it is to play great teams every week, I have a deep affection for the football of my own country. I love the rough and tumble of the league, I love the office rivalries, I love the away days I don’t go to any more.

My one hope if the Super League comes to fruition is that the fans absolutely reject it.

Football fans held captive by their bond. Shit kick-off times, expensive shirts, tickets, pies and beers… but there is always a limit to the love. I think destroying the domestic game is a gross misunderstanding of what makes football great. I’d love to see the greed punished

Big up Matty G for dropping a masterclass for France U21.

Big up the Premier League for voting in VAR next season. The masochists will be upset. Must be horrible knowing the chances of your weekend being ruined by a bad result just dropped by about 90%.

Before I go, a quick productivity tip. I was burning 4 hours a day on my mobile phone. I ditched all the apps consuming my life (remember, I work on the internet and social media is my livelihood), and it’s been great. The time I’ve wasted online gets funneled into things like reading, creating and socialising. My head feels free when I’m not thinking about those sexy, radiant, moreish red alerts on my phone. Highly recommended. Though it was sad today when all I wanted to do was post an Instagram story of the snow with the caption ‘Happy SnowYay.’

ALSO, BIG branches from four trees fell down on my road today and someone was killed by a falling tree outside a pal’s apartment. Be careful people, trees ain’t what they used to be.

Right, that’s me done. Check out my solo podcast. The reviews were pretty good. Moving forward, I think there’s no need to go a week without dropping some dirty self-aggrandising opinions.

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Marc

Ddkingz Well when you start branding Londoner’s as brainless cunts I think you need to at least show you come from somewhere more enlightened. I’m guessing it’s actually closer to a toilet. You move your argument as you get shown up – I’m not a ST holder then I’m a brainless fat (it’s spelt that way) cunt who does go to matches but doesn’t know anything. Xhaka will not lead us to a few cup titles – firstly there’s no such thing and secondly whilst we did win the FA Cup with him in the team we’ve also dropped out… Read more »

Champagne charlie

Marc

Just going to leave it now, obviously you don’t deal well with differing opinion. That much is painfully clear.

You’re all over the place, rainman would skip you. The current Arsenal manager rates Xhaka, you don’t, but anyone who isn’t gunning for him hard is all sorts according to you.

I’d change every player in that squad for the betterment of Arsenal, I’m just not daft enough to think a total overhaul is happening this summer. Least of all players that the manager clearly trusts to work with. Have a good one

gonsterous

we all know xhaka isn’t worthy of being first XI but the real question is, is he worthy of being on the bench and being a back up option ? Is he good enough to be a squad player ?

If yes, we can keep him and upgrade the first team, hence making our bench stronger in the process.

mysticleaves

Lol, the high hopes pinned on Guendouzi for this season is amazing. Can I state it categorically that no way does Guendouzi displace Xhaka from the starting XI this season or next. If it happens I would be shocked. The boy is not ready at all to START in our midfield (same as AMN though). It seems I and Charlie are the only ones watching Xhaka closely this season. He has come on in leaps and bounds this season. At the moment I wouldn’t want him replaced by just any CM but a properly scouted one like Torr that will… Read more »

Bob N16

Isn’t it interesting how fervent and fixated on certain players . Our passion for following players like Torreira mean we get intoxicated by footballerswho appears to tick all the boxes. Then of course we have the passionate ‘hate’. Last season the majority of posters on here spelt Bellerin, Bellend. Get rid was the constant message. Xhaka obviously is another target of strong emotion. Understandably I guess, as we don’t have the full picture as fans, many would chop and change the squad as if they were on play station. What might appear an obvious move, to upgrade a player, is… Read more »

mysticleaves

As a football fan I use my eyes especially while criticising my team. I recognize the difference between talent and application of said talent. In the case of our players, many of them we want binned over the last two years have talent in abundance but the application was not there, for obvious reasons. Problem is, there’s improvement coming on individually and the application is getting right but most of our fans are still stuck in their ways. Bamford coming to gloat every time Iwobi misplaces a final third pass or when Xhaka let the ball run through before the… Read more »

useroz

Social media must love Xhara who generates so much traffic.

UTarse

Mystic,
Why you so sure Guen wouldn’t be starter material by next season ? He’s improving in the short time he has been here and continuous 1st team experience can only equip him better for the future, near future IMO.

You’ve had a bee in your bonnet about the the lad since he came and was hailed as a gem by most fans.

S Asoa

Hey Pedro
You better resurrect. In absence of afresh topic it is just CC flashing his arse and everyone else pointing out to various warts around the anus.
Say something man

HillWood

Ddcuntz
Just wondering how much research you did to conclude that “most Londoners are brainless cunts”

mysticleaves

Why you so sure Guen wouldn’t be starter material by next season ?

Because he’s not better than people starting ahead of him already and both are equally getting better along with Guendouzi. He has talent but people pushing for him to replace Xhaka by January are reaching. He’s not as good yet. Not even as good as Ramsey or Wilshere when they were 19 TBH.

I rate Guendouzi but he’s not the second coming, sorry.

Bamford10

Mystic

Dumb. Whether a player has improved and whether he is good enough for the XI are two entirely different questions.

A person can recognize that Iwobi has been better under Emery but still think that he lacks the quality to be a top-class, first XI player.

A person can also recognize that Xhaka has been better under Emery — he was excellent, for example, against Liverpool — but still think that he is too error-prone for the starting XI going forward.

Champagne charlie

Samosa

Flashing my arse? Is that what debating our transfer strategy with another poster on an Arsenal blog is?

Christ, you live a sheltered life.

UTarse

Maybe Guen isn’t quite there yet to replace Xhaka this season, but if he continues his improvement I think can come August 2019.

Bob N16

Bamford, you (and others) give the impression that you’d rather be right about a player not being good enough than a player improving and you being proven wrong.

You may have some knowledge but don’t kid yourself that you’re some sort of authority on Arsenal.

mysticleaves

but still think that he is too error-prone for the starting XI going forward.

Bamford
Dumber. He’s not too error prone for the starting XI going forward. He just made an error that resulted in a goal against the previous match. Many players make errors like that but it does t result to goals most times

Marko

Another international break another Xhaka debate. He must have been good this week for the Swiss…oh they lost to Qatar. Never mind

Bamford10

Mystic

That’s not the first time Xhaka has made a bad mistake in our defensive third, nor the first time he has made a mistake that led to an opposition goal. Indeed he has made more mistakes that led to opposition goals than any player in the PL.

You might think he’s good enough for the XI going forward, but I do not, and neither do many others here.

Bamford10

Let’s say we don’t sign any wide players in January, we don’t bring Reiss-Nelson back and we continue playing in a 4-5-1. Who should our first-choice wide players be? Is this an issue for us or not?

Champagne charlie

“Indeed he has made more mistakes that led to opposition goals than any player in the PL.“

Arsenal have made more errors than any other PL side the last two seasons. Sounds more systemic than Xhaka simply being error-prone.

“You might think he’s good enough for the XI going forward, but I do not, and neither do many others here.“

There’s the standard retort of appealing to apparent consensus. What is meant by “moving forward”? Because it seems like you’re positioning yourself for a ‘see, we were right all along’ after an eventual sale.

mysticleaves

Bamford

Every defensive midfielder makes mistakes occasionally in their defensive third, they are humans after all, even the best of them. This season he has only 1 glaring mistake and it led to goal against. He might have made others but it didn’t lead to goals so we don’t talk about it.

Even Torr has made forced and unforced errors this season that has not resulted to goals. Does it make him not good enough for you?

Marko

Every defensive midfielder makes mistakes occasionally in their defensive third, they are humans after all, even the best of them Not a DM. Shouldn’t be in a conversation with the best of anybody. Let’s get it straight he has improved recently (couldn’t get any worse than he was under Wenger) and a large part of his improvement is down to how well Torreira has done since joining. Now in saying all that we’re the only top 6 side he could start for and that really says alot about where we’re at as a club. We can’t really get by in… Read more »

Bamford10

Charlie

Yeah, as I’ve explained many times now, when I say that others agree with me on this or that point, I do so only to highlight that I am not alone in my view, not that I am correct on the point. So you can stop stupidly saying that I’m resorting to argument by consensus: I’m not.

Two, by “going forward,” I mean post-break, post-January or next season, because whether I think Xhaka is the best option next weekend is a different question from whether I think he should be in the XI come February or come September.

Champagne charlie

Marko

‘Xhaka can’t defend’

Against Liverpool (where Torreira got his bits fondled for his input) Xhaka had the most passes on the pitch, most recoveries, most tackles.

You continue to oversell an idea that simply isn’t true, because it’s one you believe. If he’s improving why not concern yourself with a player actually struggling to contribute?

Champagne charlie

Banford

There’s no need, other than to argue by consensus, to introduce others when voicing a POV you hold.

I’ll wager Emery keeps Xhaka in the CI post-January. What will that say about our new coach?

Bamford10

Charlie

Actually, there is: to counter the implication that my view is somehow exclusive to me.

The argument by consensus says, “most people think x, therefore x is correct.”

In no way, shape or form have I ever resorted to such bogus logic.

All I have ever said is, “I think x, and I am not alone in this view.”

This is very different from the argument by consensus. So again, you can stop falsely accusing me of that.

mysticleaves

Marko you say he’s not a DM and yet you want to hang him for deficiencies in his defensive game, which is not an issue at all. Yet you are the one that’s ignoring the deficiencies in Auba’s all round game and want him played through the centre because he’s a pure goal scorer.

Now can you compare Xhaka’s defensive actions this season with that of other players of like in the top 6? Would like to see how wide the gap is.

mysticleaves

I mean it helps having another CM beside Xhaka. Any player not being properly coached and at the same time is tasked with doing the job of two persons will most definitely have more mistakes and errors.

Bamford10

Charlie If Xhaka is still in the XI post-January, that could mean any number of things: it might mean Emery doesn’t have any better options; it might mean he rates Xhaka more highly than I or others do. If Xhaka is still in the XI next September, however, and if he is still making the same kind of mistakes he has made regularly since his arrival, then I will say that Emery is wrong on Xhaka. We need better. If, however, Xhaka is playing game-in, game-out as he did against Liverpool, I will gladly admit that I was wrong about… Read more »

mysticleaves

‘If, however, Xhaka is playing game-in, game-out as he did against Liverpool, I will gladly admit that I was wrong about Xhaka and that Emery was right to persist with him.’

This looks like your decisiveness in semi final and final of a world cup nonsense. Creating levels that nobody can reach so that you can be proven right.

No player in the world can play like Xhaka did against Liverpool game in game out. So you can as well carry your trophy now.

Marc

Bamford That’s the thing we have nothing personal against Xhaka we just don’t think he’s right for the PL. I’ve said repeatedly he’d be a better fit for Italy but if he suddenly turns it around and puts in performances like Liverpool 85% – 90% of the time then fantastic we can use the funds that would have gone on a CM on another position. CC repeatedly accused me yesterday of being closed off and not accepting his point of view – that’s runs both ways why can’t he accept that my opinion is Xhaka needs to be upgraded upon… Read more »

Bamford10

Mystic He wasn’t so good against Liverpool that it is unreasonable to say that that is the player we need to see going forward. He was good, and he didn’t make any egregious errors. This is precisely what we need from our holding CMs. There is nothing unreasonable about saying that this is what we will need to see from him consistently if he is to remain in the XI. However, if you think there is, then I’ll revise what I said for your benefit: if Xhaka eliminates his careless game-changing errors, if he demonstrates that he is quick enough… Read more »

Graham62

Anyone watching England?

0-0, but looking good.

Nice to see so many players who are comfortable on the ball.

Dissenter

Consensus means nothing when it comes to holding an opinion, especially regarding Xhaka. The majority isn’t away right. I recall that the vast majority here wanted us to keep Sanchez….it turns out there were wrong. Xhaka has his strengths and weaknesses like every other player, it’s obvious that he’s win athe respect of Emery’s favorites because he’s strong minded, does let his head drop, is ready to sacrifice himself for the team and is the fittest player we have in the team. Like I said, he’s not going anywhere, not anytime soon since the club just renewed his contract till… Read more »

Marko

Against Liverpool (where Torreira got his bits fondled for his input) Xhaka had the most passes on the pitch, most recoveries, most tackles.

Very true but I did say by and large and you say continue to over sell an idea and can only point to one significant performance in about 2.5 seasons to disprove the idea that he’s not that good at the defensive side of the game. It’s one of the more obvious weaknesses in his game everyone knows this

Marko

Marko you say he’s not a DM and yet you want to hang him for deficiencies in his defensive game, which is not an issue at all. Yet you are the one that’s ignoring the deficiencies in Auba’s all round game and want him played through the centre because he’s a pure goal scorer. Respectfully this is a ridiculous thing to say there’s a difference between needing a midfielder to be good and both sides of the ball and needing your striker to do more than just score. For example Auba can get by as a striker who’s just a… Read more »

Bamford10

Dissenter No idea why you are bringing up the argument from consensus given this was a bogus assertion of Charlie’s from the get-go. Interestingly, though, you seem to be relying on a different logical fallacy, namely the argument from authority: “Emery thinks Xhaka is good enough; therefore he is good enough”. Sorry, but Emery is just as fallible as anyone else. He may see reasons to like Xhaka, but he may also be wrong about Xhaka, may not be seeing his flaws properly. This remains to be seen. Further, the question was whether Xhaka should be in the XI, not… Read more »

Chika

Bumford

“Xhaka has been better under Emery — he was EXCELLENT, for example, against Liverpool.”

5 minutes later:

“He wasn’t so good against Liverpool that it is unreasonable to say that that is the player we need to see going forward. He was GOOD, and he didn’t make any egregious errors.”

You’ve always been a dishonest cretin.

Bamford10

Chika

Right, he was excellent, precisely what we need him to be, precisely what we need from our CMs.

He was excellent against Liverpool, not otherworldly; so it is in no way unreasonable to say that he needs to continue to play like that if he wants to be in the Arsenal XI going forward. We need excellence, not less than that.

Nice try, though.

Dissenter

Bamford The most important authority is the manager’s when it comes to who features for Arsenal. There’s just hard fact, no fallacy there. The same argument used to be made against Mikel Obi when he was at Chelsea. Regular Joe fans would say he was crap when virtually every Chelsea manager (until Conte) has him in there starting eleven (or first 15 on the squad list). First Wenger rated Xhaka…a new manager comes in and still rates him…he can’t be that bad, can he? I just think you tend to seek validation from others to prove your point. It’s puzzling… Read more »

Dissenter

*** Virtually every Chelsea manager had him

Chika

You’re all over the place Bumford. Carry on with your bogus verbose, guy!

steve

Xhaka is a shocking player. One of the worst buys the specialist in failure did for sure.

UTarse

“Against Liverpool (where Torreira got his bits fondled for his input) ”

Are you sure ? I don’t recall seeing that nor hearing it as a view anywhere.

Marc

Just one question if Xhaka is so good why haven’t we had any mega bids for him?

Bob N16

Haven’t we Marc? Oh, you’re not an insider so you wouldn’t know.

He is far from my favourite player but AFC extended his contract and he is being picked again and again. It may well be in say 3 years time, when our team is killer, that we will look back and agree that it was steady progression that improved our chances, not wholesale changes. Be patient, eventually he will be upgraded, just as most of our team will be!

Marc

Bob

Your comment is an example of perfect logic in some sort of alternative Universe but that’s not how reality works. When a big club goes after a player aggressively they leak it to the press.

You know as well I do that we have not received any large bids for Xhaka. Also selling one first choice player is not making wholesale changes. How many players should we bring in in the summer? Or are you stuck in Wenger’s can’t buy too many players it upsets the squad?

Bob N16

Marc, you and I do not run Arsenal, whether we would make a better job of it I somewhat doubt it. Your reality does not take into consideration all the nuances and subtleties that go on outside the public eye. Decisions on who stays and goes is not as clear cut as some make out. Do not make the mistake of suggesting I am in favour of not selling Xhaka, I am simply saying that clubs don’t generally turn over that many players in one or two windows- that is the reality. Xhaka, I’m guessing, is not near the top… Read more »

HillWood

England 2 Croats 1
Get in there Mr Southgate

Dissenter

Marc,
“Just one question if Xhaka is so good why haven’t we had any mega bids for him?”

His transfer value is still stable, per transfermarket.com…in the same ball park as the fee we paid for him.
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/granit-xhaka/profil/spieler/111455
He’s not the shambolic player you all paint him as.

Marc

Bob

I’ve never suggested that I could run Arsenal better than the current management team – I’m 100% behind them however I’m allowed an opinion on here just the same as you.

As for ” all the nuances and subtleties” that go on what about the glaring fucking errors that Xhaka commits far too often?

The turnover of players you mention isn’t as great or severe as you claim.

Marc

Dissenter Great news means we can claw back some of what we spent on him. You on the other hand missed my point completely. Based on Torreira’s performances so far how many clubs in the PL would buy him for what we paid for him? Xhaka just isn’t cut out for the PL – he’s not an awful player but he’s not good enough to be a lynch pin for us. Why can’t you accept my view that we should sell and bring in someone who’s a better fit for the PL? You don’t have to agree but you’ve dismissed… Read more »

Dissenter

Marc
I understand the point you-are making. I just happen to disagree with it.
It’s just that I don’t think Xhaka is anywhere near the top of our most pressing priorities.

bennydevito

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if clubs started using AI algorithms to decide substitutions and even tactics and tram selections in future based on statistics, it’s very possible.

bennydevito

*Team selections.

Antidote

HillWood

Based on research by this brainless resident of N5, I recommend ignoring any poster who uses z when it should be an s

Drey

Bamford is 100% right on this.
Xhaka is the midfielder I’ve seen at Arsenal. slow, error-prone, indesicive, defensively terrible, etc. I could go on.
For the guys hounding Bamford about fallacy of making d crowd agree with him, I’m sorry Xhaka is not fit tie even Alex Song’s boots.
He needs to be gone from the team if we want to truly consider ourselves title challengers too

Graham62

Well done England.

International Football at last means something.

Southgate has done a cracking job. Hi

Graham62

Ignore “Hi”

Marc

Graham

Er why? The World Cup was the summer just gone and the Euro’s are 18 months away.

Leedsgunner

David Ornstein reporting that Arsenal is opening contract extension talks with Welbz. Good squad player, but is he worth a new three to five year contract? I’m not sure. I hope it’s not sentiment driven. I want to see Nketiah given a chance during his recovery…

Eddie, Eddie, Eddie!!

Champagne charlie

“CC repeatedly accused me yesterday of being closed off and not accepting his point of view – that’s runs both ways why can’t he accept that my opinion is Xhaka needs to be upgraded upon as a mater of urgency.“ I accepted that as your opinion, I just disagreed with it and told you what I’d prefer. But because I did this you were out with the insults and calling me an idiot for wanting to replace Elneny with a player that could bench Xhaka. I didn’t say anything of the sort to you, I said your POV makes no… Read more »

TonyD

Well done England.

Graham62
Agree with all you and Gons said much earlier in this post.

Dark Hei

Drey

” I’m sorry Xhaka is not fit tie even Alex Song’s boots.”

Seriously?

I will up the ante a little.

IS XHAKA FIT TO TIE DENILSON’S BOOTS?

Graham62

Marc

Having watched England for nearly 50 years, believe me when I say it, GS has performed a minor miracle.

He has managed to create a proactive team environment and rid us of all the egos.

On top of this, he has managed to give us all a sense of hope and pride in a group of players that quite clearly, love playing for their country.

We are now (fast becoming) a force to be reckoned with.

Dark Hei

Agree with you CC.

Xhaka is an issue, but not the biggest problem.

1. We need a new LB
2. We need a new backup LB
3. We need a new backup RB.

After that it is a tossup between Xhaka and Mustafi.

Because as bad as those 2 heroes are…..they are still ahead of Kolasinac, They are also relatively injury free and their bodies can play 90ms (not their brains of course; these ADHD types get distracted by the pigeons)

Graham62

An added bonus.

We(England)are actually playing some bloody good Football.

Receding Hairline

Xhaka weekend on here

National team he is virtually irreplaceable

Here a new manager comes in and Xhaka is one of his favorites

But the fellows on Le Grove with top notch footballing knowledge believes the first thing we should do is replace Xhaka, well it did not happen in the summer and it is not happening anytime soon.

it’s funny Bamford went to great lengths to point out that Emery is wrong in his assessment of Xhaka and will come to see things his way moving forward, the delusion is top notch. Once again Bamford..YOU ARE NOBODY

mysticleaves

Marko, in a two man midfield where one is a DM and the other is a CM its is a pipe dream to expect the CM to be excellent in both the defensive and offensive part. In our current set up, frankly speaking, Xhaka is good enough defensively and is excellent offensively to be our CM. That you are clouded by last season where he had to be excellent on both sides–because Ramsey always vacated his position–and failed is your problem. I have seen what a steady DM like Torr can add to a midfield. Make no mistake, the impact… Read more »

mysticleaves

Marc

How many people have bid for De bruyne, Silva, Sane or Fernandinho since they came to city? How many have bid for Hazard? How many people have bid for Messi? Since we want to get silly.

Chika

Drey

” I’m sorry Xhaka is not fit tie even Alex Song’s boots.”

Your tripe above explains why you’re pals with Bumford.

mysticleaves

It’s good news all around. The melt down at Spuds seems to be in full flow. Toby and Vertoghan or set to leave on free transfers. Both haven’t committed to new deals up till now. I know Jan is not our level, he will be looking for a much bigger and better club but we should definitely try for Toby if we are in for defenders. That way we can let Kos leave and allow Mav and Holding learn from the best.

Drey

Chika

What “tripe”? Xhaka is a terrible midfielder, a walking mistake always waiting to happen.

I have always disagreed with Bamford on Iwobi, but in this case he is bang on the money.

Graham62

The “Xhaka” talk has become rather boring.

No domestic Football, our international team flourishing and all we talk about is GX.

What about Simon Jordan and Gareth Southgate taking over the Brexit negotiations? Far more interesting.

As for my POV, Xhaka is doing far better under Emery than he was under our predecessor.

Patience is the virtue.